HIGH TREES COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TRUST

Registered charity 1079581 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HIGH TREES CDT

High Trees is Community Development Trust based in Tulse Hill, operating across Lambeth and south London. We connect with people and communities to strengthen skills and build stronger voices, delivering services in Community Education and Training, Employment and Careers Support, Children Young People and Families and Social Action.

Objects

THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT WITHIN THE AREA OF ST MARTIN'S ESTATE, LAMBETH, WITH THE FOLLOWING OBJECTS:-(A) TO RELIEVE PERSONS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS BY REASON OF THEIR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES;(B) TO ADVISE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF HOUSING ACCOMMODATION FOR PERSONS IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, POVERTY, OR DISTRESS, INCLUDING THOSE SUFFERING FROM A PHYSICAL OR MENTAL HANDICAP, ON TERMS APPROPRIATE TO THEIR MEANS;(C) TO PROMOTE THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND LEARNING, INCLUDING TRAINING IN SKILLS RELEVANT TO SECURING EMPLOYMENT;(D) TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION AND INVOLVEMENT IN THE ARTS;(E) TO PROVIDE FACILITIES FOR PUBLIC RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE;(F) TO PROMOTE OTHER SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE GENERAL BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC RESIDENT ON ST MARTIN'S ESTATE, LAMBETH AND THE SURROUNDING NEIGHBOURHOOD.

Area of benefit: ST MARTIN'S ESTATE IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF LAMBETH

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Lambeth, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a net deficit of £45,497 and is currently using its reserves to ensure the continuation of essential services due to underfunding challenges. The trustees report that the financial situation is being tightly monitored and that services could be reduced if necessary, but are currently maintained. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £1,233,722, which is below its stated policy target of 9 months' running costs (£1,741,811).

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Green & Peter (UK) Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~7.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (27/08/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Delroy Anthony Corinaldi
• Ewa Pawliczko
• Julie-Ann Say
• OLUSINA TAIWO
• Shazia Yamin
• TERENCE DAVID CURTIS

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE GIVING TREE CHARITY.

• THE GIVING TREE CHARITY income £43k
• CITY OF TREES TRUST income £3.6m
• COMMUNITY FOREST TRUST income £8.9m
• DEEP ROOTS TALL TREES income £107k
• TREES FOR CITIES income £5.4m
• TOWER HILL TRUST income £297k

Side by side with its peers

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